| Spanish cricket team in Finland in 2019 | |||
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| Finland | Spain | ||
| Dates | 16 – 18 August 2019 | ||
| Captains | Nathan Collins | Christian Munoz-Mills | |
| Twenty20 International series | |||
| Results | Spain won the 3-match series 2–1 | ||
| Most runs | Nathan Collins (86) | Ravi Panchal (126) | |
| Most wickets |
Md Nurul Huda (5) Shoaib Qureshi (5) |
Paul Hennessy (6) Ravi Panchal (6) | |
The Spain cricket team toured Finland in August 2019 to play a three-match Twenty20 International (T20I) series. These matches had T20I status after the International Cricket Council announced that all matches played between Associate Members after 1 January 2019 would have full T20I status. These were the first T20I matches to be played in Finland. In February 2019, Cricket Finland and Cricket España announced that the series would be hosted at the Kerava National Cricket Ground in August 2019, with Spain agreeing to host a return series against Finland in spring 2020.
After the first day of the T20I series, the teams were tied at one win apiece. Finland recorded their first T20I victory in the opening match by a comfortable 82-run margin, before Spain levelled the series with a 6-wicket win in the second match. On the second day, Spain won the final match by successfully chasing down the Finnish total of 158 with two balls to spare, sealing a 4-wicket victory to take the series 2–1.
Squads
 Finland
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 Spain
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Tour match
20-over match: Finland Development XI vs Spain XI
| 16 August 2019 17:00 (D/N) Scorecard |
| Finland Development XI 117/8 (20 overs) |
v | Spain XI 118/3 (15.2 overs) |
| Maneesh Chauhan 26 (31) Paul Hennessy 2/10 (2 overs) |
Christian Munoz-Mills 33 (20) Khalid Mangal 1/1 (0.2 overs) |
| Spain XI won by 7 wickets Kerava National Cricket Ground, Kerava Umpires: Humayun Mughal (Fin) and Manoj Thavayogarajah (Fin) |
- Spain XI won the toss and elected to field.
T20I series
1st T20I
| 17 August 2019 11:00 Scorecard |
| Finland 185/8 (20 overs) |
v | Spain 103 (15 overs) |
| Aravind Mohan 41 (27) Paul Hennessy 2/23 (3 overs) |
Kuldeep Lal 23 (14) Hariharan Dandapani 2/6 (1 over) |
| Finland won by 82 runs Kerava National Cricket Ground, Kerava Umpires: Sriharsha Kuchimanchi (Fin) and Srinidhi Ravindra (Fin) |
- Finland won the toss and elected to bat.
- Maneesh Chauhan, Peter Gallagher, Jonathan Scamans (Fin), Hamza Dar and Vinod Kumar (Esp) all made their T20I debuts.
2nd T20I
| 17 August 2019 15:30 Scorecard |
| Finland 135/8 (20 overs) |
v | Spain 141/4 (19 overs) |
| Md Nurul Huda 30* (14) Ravi Panchal 3/22 (4 overs) |
Yasir Ali 37* (36) Md Nurul Huda 2/26 (4 overs) |
| Spain won by 6 wickets Kerava National Cricket Ground, Kerava Umpires: Humayun Mughal (Fin) and Srinidhi Ravindra (Fin) |
- Finland won the toss and elected to bat.
3rd T20I
| 18 August 2019 11:00 Scorecard |
| Finland 158/8 (20 overs) |
v | Spain 159/6 (19.4 overs) |
| Nathan Collins 56 (50) Paul Hennessy 3/27 (4 overs) |
Ravi Panchal 71* (54) Amjad Sher 2/22 (4 overs) |
| Spain won by 4 wickets Kerava National Cricket Ground, Kerava Umpires: Sriharsha Kuchimanchi (Fin) and Srinidhi Ravindra (Fin) |
- Finland won the toss and elected to bat.
References
- ^ "Historical T20 Internationals fast approaching..." Cricket Finland. 9 August 2019. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
- "All T20 matches between ICC members to get international status". International Cricket Council. 26 April 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
- "Finland to host Spain in a T20I series; Spain will reciprocate in 2020". Cricket Finland. 3 February 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
- "Cricket España v Cricket Finland - day three". Cricket España. 17 August 2019. Retrieved 17 August 2019.
- "Cricket España v Cricket Finland - day four". Cricket España. 18 August 2019. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
- "Finnish Bears squad selected for Spain T20I's this weekend". Cricket Finland. Retrieved 17 August 2019.
- "Cricket España name the squad for Finland series". Cricket España. Retrieved 6 August 2019.